Overheating Britain: April Temperatures Break All Records ("unheard-of high temperatures")

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http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2491773.ece

Overheating Britain: April temperatures break all records
Will this be the summer when Britain reaches 40°C and the effects of climate change are painfully brought home?
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Published: 28 April 2007

The possibility is growing that Britain in 2007 may experience a summer of unheard-of high temperatures, with the thermometer even reaching 40C, or 104F,a level never recorded in history.

The likelihood of such a "forty degree summer" is being underlined by the tumbling over the past year of a whole series of British temperature records, strongly suggesting that the British Isles have begun to experience a period of rapid, not to say alarming, warming. This would be quite outside all historical experience, but entirely consistent with predictions of climate change.

The Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, in a joint forecast with the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, has already suggested that 2007 will be the hottest year ever recorded globally.

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Even with its end not yet here, this month is certain to be the hottest April ever recorded. But that's just one of a cascade of British temperature records which are now falling.

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[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. Sort of redifines the need for potable drinking water.

Oil will take a backstage soon.

[pretzel4gore]

2. centuries of ripoffs coming home

it might be politically incorrect (and serve absolutely no purpose beyond anti imperialistic gloating) but there's an element of brit aristocrats that, for example, consider geeb ( brother of john ellis bush, or 'jeb', gettit?) an honoured player in long line of players; who thought getting away with murdering entire cultures was cool, as long as it fattened up the king....kipling sang the praises, and a dozen generations of twits died grinning, cuz they thought there never be an accounting- now we got to deal with the shit they left in the home nest...global warming might be the only effective counter to racial supremacy, as represented by foxnews/limbah-humbug and the guys who driving up the dow etc
does anyone notice the squirming?

[lebkuchen]

3. Stripes Europe had an article on that today, attached

No, you didn’t forget to flip the calendar forward: It really is only April.

And while the gym mirror might indicate it’s still a wee bit early for some to don a bathing suit, the barometer measures a whole different reflection.

It’s hot. Summer’s here.

Enjoy it while you can, experts warn, because Europe could pay the price for the unseasonable, clothes-shedding weather so early in the season.

France, Belgium, Italy, England, Germany and the Netherlands, for example, are experiencing some of the warmest and driest seasons.

“Central Europe is experiencing one of the driest Aprils on record, the outlook for the remainder of the summer is for conditions warmerand drier than normal, but that doesn’t account for precipitation occurring because of thunderstorms,” said Harold Strauss, a resident climatologist with the 21st Operational Weather Squadron based in Sembach, Germany.


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http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=45431

It will be 82 degrees today in Germany, at least where I am.

[Hissyspit]

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[dave_p]

5. Not just Brits

France has experienced something similar, with freezing winter snapping overnight into scorching misdsummer at the start of the month even in the breezy highlands. It's going to be another interesting year for Europe. Forget any stereotypes of the local mailman basking in the blistering April sun as his letters flutter away, this just isn't meant to be. Time's running out faster than you think.